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I have one "special" doe that has suddenly started fur chewing for no reason I can discern! She is on a balanced 18% diet of Manna Pro Gro (almost all of my rabbits were pregnant or nursing or molting, so I just switched the herd over.) This rabbit has to have her teeth trimmed because she is...

Are there benefits to having more than one club operating in a given area? Right now there are three clubs in Alaska, two of them cover the same basic part of the state but one of them is more or less defunct. Is it worth it for me to step up and try to save this club, or should I focus my...

A friend of mine just dropped the bomb shell that she loses at least one or two from every litter with what, by all symptoms, is weaning enteritis. This shocked me, I have never had a single case of this. What causes it? We have found lots of remedies that she's employing to try to save this...

I'm going to try again for Convention this year and wanted to get some advice. I want to bring several rabbits in smaller holes inside a large vari-kennel (500 series, I think?) For flights, my options are Delta, American, United and Continental. Almost all flights have two stops and are in...

Just checked in to the ARBA website to renew my membership and saw that the Mini Lop club's charter has been revoked. What's going on with all that?

Wow, after an earlier round of frustrating breedings two weeks ago, the re-breedings on two of the ones that didn't take were SO much easier! It's really refreshing. It's been a while since I've had a nice, normal and what I feel sure will be SUCCESSFUL mating. Gotta love spring time. :)

I hear all the time from certain people that keeping rabbits on wire is cruel, it hurts their feet, yadda yadda yadda. And even MENTION having a Flemish Giant on wire and you're in for a world of hurt. Well, I believe Sil, my 10 month old Flemish has something to say to those people. "Not...

Passing this on from a friend, I think it must have come through an e-mail promo or something or perhaps the current issue as I don't see anything about it on the website: I'm already a little nervous, considering it's suggesting Belgian Hares for colonies which, in my questioning the Belgian...

I know that corn is generally not something most of us want to feed, but I have resorted to feeding COB because it offers a blend of grains without me having 100+ pounds of grain to store and mix at a time (and that would be just a two-grain mixture of oats and barley, each additional grain...

Found my third frozen litter of the year last night. I'm tired of kit-siccles. I thought if I was careful and gave the does good boxes and warm hay and shavings that they would be able to manage, but that is clearly not the case! Plenty of fur, cleaned off, five perfectly formed little ones...

I added this on the Silver Fox thread in the Breeds section, but it merits its own spot here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/v ... id=5282766 I was really pleasantly surprised to see the SF hold its own against what everyone always claims to be the "super rabbit" when it comes to meat...

Can't find the convention entry counts anywhere, just the winners. Anyone still have a link to that?

I really enjoyed this video! http://www.grist.org/article/food-2011- ... farm-video

So, thinking about starting a 3-4 times a year regime of pumpkin seeds and grapefruit seed extract to keep the rabbits, especially the colony rabbits, in good shape. Apparently these things are safe and healthy for regular use, so I don't see how this could possibly hurt. BUT, how effective...

I have read that whole oats can keep for quite a while, but milled grains have a much shorter shelf life. I am interested in using oats, barley and wheat for my rabbits in approximate thirds, which means I would be purchasing 150# of feed at a time. It would take me a while to get through...

I've been thinking today about whether or not it's really possible to significantly cut costs when starting to raise rabbits. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that there really is no SURE way to do it. You can luck out and find a lot of nice second-hand cages and equipment...

Every once in a while I do a Google news search on "rabbit". Here's what I came up with this week: Man tries to use "cooked rabbit" as a cover for bricks of cocaine—http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7035SC20110104 "White Blindness" epidemic in Melbourne rabbits—...

A pet buyer contacted me today about their little girl recently starting to spray urine at their male chihuahua. (And yes, I am sure it is a female. She didn't leave here 'til almost 5 months old, it was obvious!) Apparently, they also have two female chihuahuas that the bunny "likes to...

Jack started one up for his rabbitry and I thought it was a great idea. Do you have one for your rabbitry? I love how great it is for posting pictures and keeping my friends and family updated on what I'm doing, but only the ones that actually care about the rabbit part of my life. I can finally...

Does anyone do rabbit jumping? I'm starting to work with one of my little bucks on it. Very excited. I have grandiose visions forming of an entire rabbit circus! I want to get one rabbit trained up reasonably well, thinking after the first of the year we can maybe get back on track to get the...